Behind a grain of sand
 

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The universe is ridiculously large. To think that whole galaxies are moving away from us faster than the speed of light is almost incrompehensible (ie if you could travel at that speed you would still never catch up, even if you had 45 billion years to try). Insane. One thing I am pretty sure about though is that there definitely is some kind of other life form out there. Whether we will ever see or find it I'm not sure and probably not. The distances are just too vast.
There are even theories that outside of the universe there are other unverses or that the universe is one big bubble which expands and then collapses back to a point of singularity.
Crazy shit.

The fact that there's all those galaxies in the area of a grain of sand at arms length, and each galaxy has thousands of stars, and no doubt each star has a number of planets orbitting it, has me concluding that indeed we are not alone.

goes to show the importance of cleaning the lens on the telescope on a regular basis:-P

i'm pretty sure there's better things to waste money on than that

Why is it a waste?

what do we expect to achieve through this research?

If we never did any research we'd have achieved nothing through history.
I'd rather $Billions be wasted on finding out how it all started than $Billions wasted on finding out how better we can blow the shit out of each other.

or spending billions on me....

i'd rathers billions weren't wasted, but i'm slightly amused to see you're interested to find out how all it all started... thats almost religious sounding ;)

Also you often hear it is a waste to spend so much on this and that, especially when it comes to things related to NASA and space exploration. Most of the money gives people jobs and hence they can earn a living etc. I'm with Pud on this, it's a much better industry rather than the weapon industry. In 2006 $1.15 trillion was spent in the international arms industry wheras the total Nasa budget to date (since 1958 ) hasn't even reached half of that!!!! :shock:

Why is it religious sounding. Knowing how things started and were created on a scientific level would refute most religions as being nothing more than utter bullshit.

Believing something with no proof or evidence is what religion is all about, finding proof or evidence before drawing upon a conclusion cannot be religion.

exactly, so why waste billions searching for proof or evidence of how life started???

Honestly these "billions" are SOOO insignificant in comparison to how much money has been pumped into all the economies over the last two years. It's like a grain of sand itself. This is a debate about hardly anything imo....

Not exactly at all. To find that proof or evidence you need to do experiments which require building large pieces of equipment like the Large Hadron Collider, Hubble Telescope and the soon to be launched James Webb Space Telescope. If I was religious I'd need no proof, I am not and therefor would like some.

im great

so you'd rather spend billions trying to find how life potentially started, rather than trying to preserve live by spending billions on research and experiments to help find cures for diseases and afflictions that currently exist??

I don't believe I said that, in fact I know I never said that and I know that you know I never said that. Trying to link me believing that money should be spent on research into how the universe and life began, to not wanting research into cures for diseases is bullshit at best, and you damn well know it.

To quote me: "I'd rather $Billions be wasted on finding out how it all started than $Billions wasted on finding out how better we can blow the shit out of each other."

yeah, i know... but was funny to see you work to justify it ;)

Damn, I've been played like a cheap violin :boohoo:

I've once read an insteresting theory on alien life, I'll try to summarize it:

It is all based on the concept of infinity, and that Inf. * Inf. = Inf.

step 1: It is generally believed that the universe is infinite
step 2: Even if the chance of alien life is minimal, this would mean there is a nearly 100% chance that it IS out there
step 3: As infinity is infinite, that would mean there is an infinite number of alien life forms out there.
step 4: It is a scientific fact that the number of possible DNA combinations is not infinite.
step 5: assumed alien life is based on DNA as well, there is a nearly 100% possibility that at some point out there, there is one life form that has exactly the same genetical structure as every one of us.
step 6: Further applying the concept of infinity we can assume there the number of life forms with exactly the same DNA code as me or you, it is nearly certain that there is an endless number of copies of every one of us out there.
step 7: Imagine an infinite number of Puddings! :panic:


Dont know what to think of it, but I kept it in mind for years as I though this was an interesting idea

Since step #1 is wrong, it's all downhill from there. So, thankfully, there aren't an infinite number of Puddings out there :-)

Of course, there might be an infinite number of universes, each one different. Maybe in one of them there was a Bat III with Jim at the helm?

RJ, I've got a project for you ... :lol:

You'd probably want to stick a '69' on them too :lmao:

Action all the way :cool: